Updates
We change something in StockWatch most days. These are the changes you'll notice, newest first.
Argos monitors wait out Argos updating its app
- Fixed
When Argos takes its app down for an update and shows a "back soon" page, your Argos monitor now says so and keeps checking at its usual speed. It used to show an error. Anything that changed while Argos was away is announced as soon as it's back.
Patagonia monitors show sizes and pounds, and can watch one product
- New
You can now watch a single Patagonia product. Paste its link and every colour and size is checked each time the monitor runs.
- Improved
Patagonia alerts now say which sizes are in stock, and each colour on the Products page lists its sizes.
- Improved
On the UK shop, Patagonia prices are in pounds again, and a colour on sale shows the price it was before. Prices on the other shops are in euros.
- Improved
A Patagonia restock or sell-out is now checked against the product itself before an alert goes out.
Patagonia restock alerts are for colours that came back
- Fixed
A Patagonia monitor could mark a run of colours as sold out for a moment and then send a restock alert for each one when they reappeared. A colour is now only marked sold out when Patagonia's own listing says so, so a restock alert means it really came back.
- Fixed
Patagonia prices were shown with a £ sign when they were the euro price. They now show in euros.
Philips Hue monitors show the right stock and links
- Fixed
A Philips Hue monitor could show a product as sold out while the shop was selling it, and say it was back when it was nearly gone. It now goes by whether you can add the product to your basket.
- Fixed
Some Philips Hue alerts linked to a page that didn't exist. Every link now opens the product's own page, and products a monitor couldn't link to before are watched too.
- Improved
When the Philips Hue shop is slow to answer, a check now tries again before it shows an error.
eBay monitors can tell you when a listing sells
- New
Tick Listing sold on an eBay monitor and we'll tell you when a listing we've sent you sells, and what it sold for. eBay takes a few minutes to confirm a sale, so the alert arrives a few minutes after it.
- Improved
A listing that sells to an offer can show at the offer price for a minute before it goes. If you get that as a price drop, the Sold alert that comes after it says it sold to an offer.
Picking what to watch on a phone works on more websites
- Fixed
On a phone, "Pick it on the page" showed some websites as a blank page. They now load in full, so you can tap the part you want to watch.
EE monitors now watch every colour and size
- Improved
EE monitors now check every colour and size of each phone, console and laptop, at the price EE charges on the product's page, offers included. A size EE had stopped showing in its listings no longer shows as sold out.
- New
You can now watch a single EE product: paste its link and you'll hear about every colour and size it comes in. Alerts open on the colour or size they're about.
Fewer false alerts from EE monitors
- Fixed
An EE monitor could tell you a phone was back in stock when it had never sold out. Now it only says so after EE has listed it as out of stock or not yet on sale.
- Fixed
A price drop alert from an EE monitor could compare one size or colour with another, so a 43 inch TV seemed to drop from the 85 inch's price. Each size and colour is now only compared with its own earlier price.
One Centroxogo monitor now covers every Pokémon card there
- Improved
A Centroxogo monitor now watches the shop's whole Pokémon cards range in one go, every 30th Celebration box, tin and bundle included, so one is all you need. Pasting a Centroxogo product link into the Add box still gets you alerts for just that product.
Share whole folders and keyword tasks with your team
- New
You can now share all your monitors with your team in one go, or a folder at a time. Anything you add to a shared folder later goes to the team too, and your teammates see your monitors sorted into the same folders you use.
- New
You can share keyword tasks with your team as well. When a shared task finds a match on one of the team's monitors, each teammate hears about it on their own phone, email or Discord, and anyone can switch a shared task off just for themselves.
Only hear about things in your price range
- New
Monitors now have an "Only in my price range" option in their alert settings. Set a lowest price, a highest price or both, and we'll only tell you about products priced inside it. With price drop alerts on, a drop into your range always reaches you, however small. It's free on every plan, and switching it off keeps your numbers for next time.
- New
Keyword tasks can have a price range too, so a task for Pokémon booster boxes can skip the £300 bundles that share the name.
Anthropologie products show when they sell out
- Fixed
When an Anthropologie product sold out, your Products page could go on showing it as in stock. It now shows as sold out at the next check, and if the monitor has sold-out alerts switched on, you'll get one.
Smyths click and collect near you
- New
On the paid plans, give us your postcode and how far you'll travel, and we'll tell you when you can collect a Pokémon 30th Celebration product from a Smyths near you. Each alert names the shop and how many it has. It's in beta for now. Your other Smyths Toys monitors stay paused while we finish our review.
Argos alerts when you can buy
- Fixed
When an Argos product goes on sale before you can collect it or have it delivered, you now get another alert as soon as Click & Collect or Delivery opens, by email too. That second alert could go missing before.
Switching plans
- Fixed
If you already pay, you can now switch to a different plan from Settings. The unused part of your current plan comes off the price of the new one.
- Improved
Moving from Power User to Standard pauses the shop monitors only Power User includes, and a notification tells you which. Move back and they start again.
- Fixed
If the payment page can't open, you now get a message saying so and how to reach us, instead of a button that keeps spinning.
Products taken off sale
- Fixed
When a shop takes a product you're watching off sale, the watch now shows it as sold out instead of an error. We keep checking the link, so you'll hear if it comes back.
- Improved
If you paste a link to a product the shop no longer has, we now say so and offer to watch the whole shop instead.
Draws and invites, all on one page
- New
The new Draws & invites page shows everything you can enter or ask for right now at shops that sell by draw or invitation, Amazon's Request invite and the Argos Drop among them. It's on every plan, Free included.
- New
Mark what you've entered and what you won, and we'll remind you before a saved draw closes or a win runs out. Switch on new draw alerts to hear the moment one opens.
Argos monitors always include app-only products
- Improved
Argos monitors no longer have an App exclusives only switch. Products you can only buy in the Argos app were always included, and their alerts tell you to buy in the app. The switch only hid everything else, including drops you'd want to hear about.
Cardyard gift cards, in beta
- New
You can now watch a shop's gift cards on Cardyard, like CeX, and hear the moment it has cards for sale, a new face value is listed or its discount goes up. It's on every plan, Free included. Paste the shop's link from cardyard.co.uk to set it up.
- New
On a paid plan you can also watch every shop on Cardyard at once.
Argos Pokémon monitors stick to the cards
- Fixed
If you added Argos from the shops we suggest, your Pokémon monitor was also sending alerts for Pokémon puzzles, T-shirts, LEGO and games. It now watches Argos's trading cards and nothing else.
- New
If you set up an Argos search yourself, turn on Trading cards only to hear about cards alone. In the step-by-step setup, Pokémon cards is a single tap.
HMV stock counts no longer get stuck
- Fixed
An HMV monitor could show some products' old stock count for hours after HMV had changed it. It now shows the new count.
Monitors no longer say an open shop is down for maintenance
- Fixed
After a shop came back from maintenance, your monitor could keep saying it was down, and while it did, it couldn't see anything change there. It now checks the shop is still closed before saying so, and carries on as normal once it isn't.
New products on Any other shop monitors get their alerts again
- Fixed
A monitor set up as Any other shop sometimes added a new product to your list without telling you, and renaming the monitor could make its next check do the same. New products it finds now get the same alerts as new products from any other monitor.
Fewer false alerts from monitors that watch part of a page
- Fixed
If something a monitor watches didn't show up on the page for one check, you could get an alert that it had sold out or changed, then another when it came back, though nothing about it had changed. Just after you'd edited the monitor, it could come back as something new. Now the monitor keeps what it last saw until it can see it again, and if it stays missing you're still told once that it needs picking again.
A monitor whose page has changed now tells you
- Fixed
When a shop changed a page a monitor had been reading, the monitor kept saying it would try again in a few minutes. Now it says the page may have changed, and the monitor's card offers to edit the link along with the other ways to watch that page.
- Fixed
Some shops' product pages couldn't be read even though they show the price and whether it's in stock. We can read them now.
Paste an HMV product link to watch it
- New
If your plan includes HMV, you can paste an HMV product's link into the Add box and we'll watch that one product for you. You don't need to set up a monitor. If you paste a search or a list, we'll ask for the link to one product instead.
- Fixed
Setting up an HMV monitor with no search term saved a monitor that failed every check. Setup now asks what to search HMV for before it saves.
Picking what to watch on a phone works again
- Fixed
On a phone or tablet, tapping the part of a page you wanted to watch flashed green and then added nothing, and the page could say it wasn't responding when it was. Both are fixed.
- Fixed
When you changed what a monitor watches from a phone or tablet, none of what it already watched showed up, and saving could lose it, along with settings such as the monitor's text filter. Now its picks load with the page, and saving keeps the rest of its settings.
- Improved
Everything you pick stays outlined on the page, green for what's watched and red for what's ignored, as it is in the Chrome extension. If something a monitor watches isn't on the page, it's marked in the list and kept when you save.
Watch one HMV product from its link
- Fixed
Single Product on HMV asked for a product number and didn't work. It now takes the product's link instead: copy it from your browser while you're on the product's page.
HMV monitors miss fewer checks
- Fixed
When HMV turned away part of a check, the check either failed or missed the rest of your search. It now asks again straight away, so the check reads your whole search.
- Fixed
A product's stock count on HMV could flip between two numbers from one check to the next, with a stock alert each time. It doesn't any more.
- Fixed
HMV products that come in sizes, like T-shirts, showed as sold out even while sizes were on sale. They now show in stock for as long as HMV is selling them.
- Fixed
Pressing the refresh button on a paused monitor only said the check couldn't be queued. Now it tells you the monitor is paused, and that the play button starts it again.
Myriad and Itemdrop, in beta
- New
You can now watch a product at Myriad, Itemdrop or another shop built on OpenCart, on every plan including Free. Paste the product's link and we'll tell you when it's back in stock or its price drops. It's new, so if an alert looks off, tell us.
- New
On a paid plan you can also watch a whole shop, a category, a search or the newest products there.
Choose the hours a monitor checks
- New
You can set a monitor to check only at certain times of day, in one stretch or several (midnight to 7am, then 10am to 11pm, say). Next to the hours you pick, we show how much of that shop's recent stock movement happened outside them, so you know what you'd miss.
Setup shows the site type your link picked
- Fixed
In step-by-step setup, pasting a shop's link picks its site type for you. If that type was far down the list, it got picked out of sight and it looked as if nothing had happened. Now the list scrolls to show it, and if something you'd typed in the search was hiding it, the search is cleared.
Selfridges, in beta
- New
You can now watch a product at selfridges.com, like a Pokémon soft toy or a LEGO set, and hear the moment it can be bought and when its price drops. If it comes in sizes, you can pick just yours. It's on every plan, Free included.
- New
Paste a Selfridges product link into the paste box and it sets up a Selfridges monitor for that product.
Monitors wait out a shop's maintenance page
- Fixed
When a shop takes its website down for maintenance and puts up a "back soon" page, your monitor now says so and keeps checking at its usual speed. It used to show an error. Anything that changed while the shop was away is announced as soon as it's back.
Monitors wait out a shop's waiting room
- Fixed
When a shop puts up a waiting room for a big release, your monitor now says so and keeps checking at its usual speed. It used to show an error, slow down and sometimes pause itself before the room came down. Anything that changed while the room was up is announced as soon as the shop lets people in.
The classic form no longer leaves Shopify picked by mistake
- Fixed
In the classic form, a link to a shop we couldn't recognise left the site type on Shopify, and a monitor on a shop that isn't on Shopify never found anything. The form now picks Any other shop, as step-by-step setup does, unless you've already chosen a type yourself.
- Fixed
A link to a shop whose own monitor isn't on your plan also left Shopify picked. Now the site type stays empty, and the note under it says which plan has that shop and what else you can do to watch it.
- Improved
If you choose Shopify, or another shop platform, for a shop that has its own monitor, saving now tells you which monitor to pick instead, or which plan has it. Monitors you already have aren't affected.
Centroxogo links set up a Centroxogo monitor
- Fixed
Paste a Centroxogo link when you add a monitor and we now pick the Centroxogo monitor, with your link already in it. Before, it could end up as a Shopify monitor, which can't read that shop. Product and category links look the same on Centroxogo, so we ask which one yours is.
Shops you ask for show which plan has them, before setup
- Fixed
When you asked for a shop we already monitor, or opened a request of yours we'd added, setup skipped to that shop's settings even if its monitor isn't on your plan, and you only found out when you pressed Create. Now it starts on the first step with your link and says which plan has that shop, before you fill anything in.
- Fixed
The same two ways in skipped the check on your email address, so if you hadn't confirmed it yet you also only found out at Create. Now they ask you to confirm it before you start.
Setting up from an eBay site we don't search yet
- Improved
Paste a link from an eBay site we don't search yet, like eBay Spain, on the first step of setting up a monitor and we now say so straight away, instead of setting up Any other shop and turning it down at the end. You can ask us to add that site, or search one we do cover with the same words. You pick which one.
- Fixed
A link from one of those sites pasted into an eBay monitor's search box used to become the search itself. Now we tell you to type what you're after and pick the site instead.
eBay monitors set to Used find used cards
- Fixed
An eBay monitor set to Used now finds graded and ungraded cards, the same listings eBay shows under Used. Refurbished covers every refurbished grade as well. If you tick every condition, you'll also see listings where the seller didn't give one.
- Improved
Paste a link from an eBay card search filtered to New or Used and your monitor now keeps that filter. Before, it was left out and the monitor searched every condition.
Pasted eBay links say what to do next
- Fixed
A link to one eBay listing, pasted into the Add box or the box on our homepage, said we couldn't read a product there and to try a link to a single product, which it already was. Now you're told that an eBay monitor watches a search, with a button to set one up from your link.
- Improved
A link from an eBay site we don't search yet, like eBay Spain or eBay France, now says so and names the ones we do. You can ask us to add it from the same box.
eBay's Accepts offers filter now works
- Fixed
On an eBay monitor, picking Accepts offers in the classic form didn't change the search, so you heard about every listing. It now looks only at listings that take offers, and you can pick it in the step-by-step setup too.
- Improved
Buying format on an eBay monitor is now one choice: All listings, Buy It Now, Auction or Accepts offers. You used to be able to tick two, and Buy It Now with Auction found auctions only.
eBay alerts tell auctions from Buy It Now
- Fixed
eBay alerts called every listing Buy It Now, auctions included. Now they say when a listing is an auction, how many bids it has and whether it takes offers. If an auction ends within a day, the alert says how long is left too.
- Fixed
eBay monitors now tell you when an auction in your search gets a new bid, as the setup screen says they do. Bid alerts go to Discord, your phone and your dashboard. They're never emailed, so they don't use up your email allowance.
eBay links keep their filters
- Improved
Paste a link from an eBay search and your monitor now picks up the filters you set there too: price range, Buy It Now or Auction, condition, category and item location. If the link has a filter a monitor can't use, like free postage or sold items, we list it on screen so you know it's been left out.
- Improved
eBay and eBay Misspellings monitors now always look at the newest listings first, since that's how they catch new ones, so the Sort order setting has gone. Sorted any other way, a monitor could miss a new listing or alert you about an old one.
- Fixed
On an eBay Misspellings monitor set to European Union or Worldwide, the link to its search on eBay opened the other one.
Paste an eBay link and the wizard picks eBay
- Improved
Paste an eBay search link on the first step of setting up a monitor and we now pick eBay for you, with your search and the eBay site already filled in. A link to one listing, or to eBay's home page, picks eBay too and asks you to type what you're after, because an eBay monitor watches a search.
- Fixed
On a plan without eBay monitors, a pasted eBay link now tells you which plan has them, rather than setting up Any other shop.
eBay monitors ask what to search for
- Improved
Setting up an eBay monitor now starts with a box for what you're searching for: type what you'd put in eBay's own search and pick the site. There's no link to copy, though a link from an eBay search still works if you have one.
- Fixed
An eBay monitor could be saved with nothing to search for, and then failed every check. Now it asks you to fill in the search before it saves. The same goes for an eBay Misspellings monitor with no item.
HMV searches find products again
- Fixed
An HMV search with an accented word in it, like Pokémon, found nothing and showed an error. It now finds the same products as the plain spelling. And when HMV has nothing for your search, that's no longer an error: the monitor keeps checking and tells you when something turns up.
Told up front when a page hides its stock
- Fixed
Some product pages show a price but don't say whether the product is in stock. A link to one of those used to set up a watch that showed the product as sold out, whether it was or not. Now you're told as soon as you paste the link, with the other ways to watch it.
See the Argos product before you save
- New
When you set up an Argos monitor for one product, it now shows the product, its price and whether it's in stock as soon as you type the link or number. If Argos doesn't list that number, it tells you straight away.
Watch an Argos product before it is listed
- Improved
An Argos product monitor for a catalogue number Argos doesn't list yet now shows Product not found and keeps checking. It used to show an error and pause itself. You'll hear as soon as Argos lists it.
Argos drops reach you sooner
- New
Argos monitors now tell you as soon as Argos puts a product on sale, app exclusives included, even if Argos still lists it as out of stock.
- Improved
Argos monitors no longer have a sold-out alert option, and they don't send sold-out alerts.
Empty boxes in setup look empty
- Improved
The example text in a setup box is now dimmer, so an empty search box no longer looks as if a search term is already in it.
The link you paste now sets up what it points at
- Fixed
At shops with their own settings, like Argos, Waterstones and Toys R Us, setup lost the link you pasted on the first step as soon as it picked the shop, so a product link turned into a search or a list. Now a product link sets up that one product, and a category or search link sets up that category or search.
- Improved
If a monitor could never check anything, such as one product with no product link or an Argos search with nothing to search for, setup now stops on the settings step and tells you what to add. It used to save the monitor, which then failed every check.
- Improved
Some shops, such as Mulberry Bush and Centroxogo, use the same kind of link for a product and a list. On those, setup now asks which you meant rather than guessing.
A Next monitor keeps the product link you paste
- Fixed
Setting up a Next monitor could leave it with no product to watch. If you pasted a Next product link on the first step, the link was lost as soon as Next was picked, and every check after that failed. Now the link goes through to the settings, and a link to a Next category or search sets up that category or search.
- Improved
If you choose one product on a Next or Primark monitor and leave the product link empty, setup now stops on that step and tells you what to paste. It used to save a monitor that could never check anything.
- Fixed
When a monitor was missing something it needs, like a product link, its card said the last check didn't go through and asked you to press Resume. It now says what's missing, with a button to edit the monitor.
Mulberry Bush monitors, in beta
- New
You can now watch Mulberry Bush, the toy shop, on every plan, including Free. Paste a link to one of its categories or a search and one monitor covers everything on that list, sold-out toys included, for new products, restocks and price drops. You can also watch its newest toys, or just one product. It's new, so if an alert looks off, tell us.
You can update the Chrome extension from the site
- Fixed
If you already had the StockWatch Chrome extension, the site said "You've got it" and hid the download, so there was no way to get a newer version from there. It now checks which version you have. When a newer one is out, the extension card in Settings says so and gives you the download and the steps to swap it in.
The extension no longer says it is reconnecting every time you open it
- Fixed
Every time you opened the StockWatch Chrome extension it said "Reconnecting to StockWatch" for a few seconds, even though nothing was wrong. It now says so only when it has lost touch with StockWatch.
- Improved
On the extension's Site tab, the page address, the shop and the buttons were squashed up against each other. They have room now. Where picking something on the page is the only way to watch it, Pick something to watch is the main button.
- Improved
Get the latest extension from Settings to pick both up.
A team invitation can be answered from the bell
- Fixed
When someone invites you to a team, the invitation under the bell has Accept and Decline buttons. Pressing them did nothing. Now they answer the invitation straight away. If it has expired, or you have already answered it, the bell says so and tells you what to do next.
An expired team invitation no longer holds a place
- Fixed
A team invitation that ran out without an answer still took up a place on the team, and you could not invite that person again until you removed it. Now the place is free as soon as the invitation runs out, and the Invitations tab shows it as expired with a Send Again button.
- Improved
The Decline button in a team invitation email now opens the invitation and asks whether to decline it. It used to open the same page as Accept, and the person had to find Decline again.
Email alerts have fewer switches
- Improved
Email now needs three things: Email Notifications switched on in Settings, an address, and email turned on for the monitor. The list of alert types to tick under Email me about has gone. Each monitor already decides what it tells you about, and email follows the same choices.
Fewer emails when a product keeps coming back
- Improved
Some products sell out and come back several times in a morning. You still hear about every one of them on your phone, on Discord and in the app. By email you get the first one straight away, and we will not email you about the same product again for an hour.
- Improved
On your phone, a product that comes back again updates the alert already showing instead of adding another one, and it still pings each time.
Shops you add from our suggestions now email you
- Improved
Add a shop from the ones we suggest and its alerts go to the email address you signed up with from the start. You do not need to switch anything on first, and you can turn it off on the monitor whenever you like.
More Shopify shops can be watched
- Fixed
Some shops sell through Shopify on a site they built themselves, and we could not read them. A product link pasted from one now works, sizes included, and so does a monitor on the shop or on one of its collections.
- Improved
If one of those shops closes for a while before a release, a watch on it waits and carries on the moment the shop opens again.
A new homepage, and signing in is easier on a phone
- Improved
We rebuilt the homepage. The Pokemon Center queue alert is one tap from the top, and the page lists what you can watch and which shops come with each plan.
- Improved
Your phone can now fill in your email and password when you sign in or sign up, and offer to save them.
- Fixed
A wrong password now offers a reset, and signing up with an email that already has an account offers to sign you in.
A monitor that is waiting to run now says so
- Fixed
When your plan's cloud monitors are all in use, a monitor that is switched on has to wait. It used to look as if it was running, and its details said there was nothing you needed to do. Its card now says it isn't running, and why.
- Improved
From that card you can swap it with a monitor that is running, move it to your own browser, or upgrade. The Chrome extension shows it as not running too.
Sold-out alerts now arrive from every shop
- Fixed
Ticking "Sold out" on a monitor didn't always do anything. On some shops the sell-out showed on your dashboard but the alert never went out, and now it does. "Sold out" is still off until you tick it, and it only emails you if you've also switched on "Stock goes out" in Settings, so it won't use your monthly emails unless you ask it to.
New help guides: queue alerts, plans, and watching one product
- New
Help has three new guides. Pokemon Center queue alerts explains what each alert means and what to do when the queue goes up. Plans and limits says what each plan includes and what to do when you reach a limit. Watching one product from a link covers choosing a size, setting a price to wait for, and what to try when a link cannot be read.
- Improved
Troubleshooting now lists each message a monitor can show, with what it means and what to do about it.
A step by step guide to setting up alerts
- Improved
The guide to alerts in Help now takes you through each way of being told one step at a time: on your phone (with the extra steps an iPhone needs), by email and in Discord, and how to send yourself a test.
- Improved
The guides to creating a monitor, how often monitors check, keywords and teams have been brought up to date, and each now says which plan a feature comes with.
Accents in product names come out right
- Fixed
Some product names and alerts showed a jumble where an accent or a curly quote should be, so Pokémon could turn up as "Pokémon". Names now read the way the shop wrote them, and the ones already in your products list put themselves right at the monitor's next check.
Primark monitors, in beta
- New
You can now watch Primark. Paste a link to a Primark product, tap your size, and we'll tell you when it can be reserved for Click & Collect again. It's new, so if an alert looks off, tell us.
- New
A lot of what Primark sells is in its shops only. Add your postcode to a product and we'll tell you when a Primark near you has it on the shelf, and which shop.
- New
On a paid plan you can also watch everything Primark lists, or check the shops for a whole search.
A proper guide to the Chrome extension
- New
The Chrome extension now has a full guide in Help, with pictures: how to make a monitor by clicking on a page, what each status in the extension means, and what to do when one needs you.
The extension tells you when a shop wants to check you're human
- New
Some shops ask visitors to prove they're human before they show a page. A monitor that runs in your own Chrome can't answer that for you, so the extension now tells you when it happens, with a button that opens the page. Get past the check once and the monitor carries on.
Monitors in your browser tell you when they stop
- New
A monitor that runs in your own Chrome only checks while Chrome is open. If one goes a while without a check, we now send you an alert that says so and how to start it again. You'll hear once, not every time you close your laptop.
- Improved
If a monitor you made by picking something can't get through from our side, it now has a Run it in my browser button. One press moves it to your own Chrome exactly as it is.
The Chrome extension checks its work, and asks for less
- Improved
The StockWatch Chrome extension no longer collects any usage data, and the switch for it has gone from its settings. It also asks Chrome for fewer permissions than before.
- New
When you pick something to watch in the extension, StockWatch now checks it can read it before saving and shows you what it read. If a shop keeps us out, it tells you there and then and offers to run the monitor in your browser instead.
- Improved
When a shop changes how its page is laid out, a monitor you made by picking something now follows it, as long as it still says the same. If we can't be sure it is the same thing, the monitor stops and asks you to pick it again.
- Improved
Sign out on the website and the extension now signs out with you.
Picking what to watch in Chrome works on more pages
- Improved
In the StockWatch Chrome extension you can now pick a greyed-out Add to basket button, which is usually the thing you want to hear about. A cookie banner no longer gets in the way either: press Use the page to close it, then carry on picking.
- Improved
A monitor made by picking something on a page now keeps watching the same thing when the shop rearranges that page. Pick a product in a list and it follows that product, wherever it moves to.
- Fixed
If the extension gets signed out it now tells you, with a badge on its icon and a notification. Before, monitors running in your browser carried on checking with nowhere to send what they found.
- Fixed
The extension's Monitors tab now says when a monitor has stopped checking, and why one is failing, in plain words.
- Improved
Get the latest extension from Settings. Older ones will suggest the update the next time you open them.
Add more shops, then pick which one runs
- New
When your plan's cloud monitors are all in use, a new monitor is now saved and paused rather than turned away. Tap Run this one instead to swap it with one that's running. Both keep everything you set up, so you can swap back whenever you like.
- Improved
A monitor you switch back on after a long pause now starts from what's on the shop today, so you won't get a pile of alerts about everything that changed while it was off.
Your queue alert tells you it is on
- Improved
Once your Pokemon Center queue alert is on, the dashboard says so and tells you where we'll send it. If nothing can reach you, it says that too and takes you straight to the fix.
- Improved
The Add a monitor menu and the paste box no longer offer you the queue alert when you already have it.
- New
When the queue clears, the email can now suggest a few Pokemon shops to watch until the next one.
- Improved
Pokemon shops you add from our suggestions now leave out single cards, so you hear about boxes, tins and packs.
- Improved
If an alert has nowhere to reach you, we now offer to send it to the phone or computer you're on. On an iPhone that means adding StockWatch to your Home Screen first, and we show you how.
- Improved
Alert emails now tell you when you have only a few left for the month, and the last one says the day email starts again. Settings shows how many you have used.
- Improved
Pokemon Center queue alert emails no longer count towards your monthly email allowance, so other alerts can never use up the one you need on drop day.
iPhone alerts open the shop in one tab
- Fixed
Tapping an alert on an iPhone sometimes opened the same shop in two Safari tabs. It now opens in one.
Toys R Us Portugal and Spain monitors
- New
You can now watch Toys R Us Portugal and Spain on every plan, including Free. Pick Pokemon cards and one monitor covers every card product the shop lists, sold-out ones included, for new products, first releases, restocks and price drops. Or watch one product and see how many are left. It's in beta for now.
El Corte Inglés monitors
- New
You can now watch El Corte Inglés Portugal on the paid plans. One monitor covers every Pokémon product it sells, cards and figures alike, for new products, restocks and price drops, or you can watch just one product. It's in beta for now.
Watch one category of a WooCommerce shop
- New
WooCommerce monitors can now watch a single category, like a shop's pre-orders or its Pokemon cards. Paste the category's link into the new box, or use it as the shop address, and the monitor watches everything in it, including its sub-categories.
- Fixed
Some product names from WooCommerce shops came through with odd codes where a dash, an apostrophe or an ampersand should be. They now read the way the shop writes them.
Fewer false new product alerts
- Fixed
If you changed a monitor's link or settings, say from a shop's newest products to the whole shop, it could send you a new product alert for everything the shop already had. Now you'll only hear about what turns up after the change, on every shop we watch.
Centroxogo monitors
- New
You can now watch Centroxogo, the Portuguese toy shop, on the paid plans. One monitor covers all of its Pokemon cards for new releases, restocks and price drops, or you can watch just one product. It's in beta for now.
Sold-out alerts you were missing
- Fixed
When a shop sold out of lots of products at once, we held those sold-out alerts back, so you only heard about it when the stock came back. Now you'll hear both. If you'd rather not get them, switch off Sold out on the monitor.
- Fixed
If you changed a paused monitor's link or settings and switched it back on, it could send new product alerts for things that were already there. That's fixed.
Fewer false restock alerts
- Fixed
A monitor watching one part of a shop, like the Pokemon range at Zatu, could send restock alerts when nothing had come back in stock, sometimes several for the same product in a few minutes. That's fixed.
Hear back about sites you ask us to add
- Improved
Asking us to add a site is now a conversation. You'll hear when we look at it and when it's added, and if we need to know which products you're after, we'll ask on your request and you can reply straight back.
- Improved
If we can't add a site, we'll tell you rather than leave you waiting.
Report a problem from any monitor
- New
Every monitor now has a Report a problem button, so you can tell us when one shows an error, goes quiet or misses a restock. Pick what's wrong, add a note if you like, and the monitor's details come with it.
- Improved
Each report is a conversation with us. If we need more detail we'll ask on your report, you can reply straight back, and you'll get a notification when we answer.
Monitors tell you when a shop keeps turning them away
- Fixed
If a shop keeps turning a monitor's checks away, the monitor now slows down, then pauses and tells you. Before, it could keep failing for hours without a word.
First-drop alerts on single-product monitors
- Fixed
A monitor that watches a single product now always tells you when it goes on sale for the first time, even with new-product alerts switched off. Until now that first alert could go missing.
Smyths Toys monitors paused for now
- Improved
We're reviewing Smyths Toys, so its monitors are paused and you can't set up new ones for now. Yours will start checking again by themselves once we're done.
- Improved
A paused Smyths Toys monitor doesn't count towards your plan, so you can use that space for another shop in the meantime.
Titan Cards and Double Sleeved in suggested shops
- New
Titan Cards and Double Sleeved are now among the shops we suggest. Both are set up for 30th Celebration sealed stock, so you'll hear when something is listed or comes back in.
More cloud monitors on Standard and Power
- Improved
Standard and Power now come with a lot more cloud monitors, so you can watch Argos and the big card shops at the same time without hitting your limit. Your plan page has the new numbers.
- Improved
Suggested shops now lead with the card shops, since that's where Pokemon restocks and new listings turn up most often.
Next monitors, in beta
- New
You can now watch Next. Paste a link to a Next product, tap your size, and we'll tell you when that size is back in stock or drops in price. It's new, so if an alert looks off, tell us.
- New
On a paid plan you can also watch a Next category, like Toys or LEGO, or a search, and hear about each new product as Next adds it.
Pasting a product link into Any other shop
- Improved
Paste a single product's link into Any other shop and the monitor now watches just that product, named after it. You'll hear as soon as it's back in stock.
- Fixed
On some shops, a monitor card showed the shop's logo instead of the product and linked to the wrong page. It also couldn't tell when the product came back in stock. That's fixed, and we've repaired the monitors it affected.
Suggested shops watch the right stock
- Fixed
The Total Cards and Zatu suggestions now watch each shop's Pokemon range, so you'll hear about restocks there.
- Improved
The Magic Madhouse suggestion now watches 30th Celebration sealed stock. To follow a different set, change the words it looks for.
- New
A Shopify shop monitor can now watch a single collection. Paste the collection's link, such as the shop's Pokemon page.
- Improved
If you'd already added one of these suggestions, we've switched it over for you.
Clearer messages when a check fails
- Improved
When a check doesn't go through, your monitor now says what happened in plain words and whether you need to do anything. Most of the time you don't, and it keeps checking.
- Improved
If a product's page has gone, there's a button to paste its new link. If a monitor was paused after failing, you can start it again from the same message.
- Improved
Your notifications and alerts channel use the same plain words, so there's nothing to decode.
- Improved
A check that fails once and works on the next try no longer shows up as a problem. We only tell you when checks have kept failing for ten minutes.
Shops worth watching next
- New
Once your queue alert is on, we suggest shops where Pokemon stock turns up between queues, such as Argos and Total Cards. One tap sets up the watch.
- New
Your dashboard and Monitors page now suggest shops that fit what you already watch. On the Monitors page you can hide them.
- Improved
If your plan can't take another shop, we now say so in plain words and show what you can do instead, like watching a single product.
- Improved
On an iPhone or iPad we now show you how to add StockWatch to your home screen, which is what lets alerts pop up on your phone. Opened the link inside another app? We'll tell you how to get it into Safari first.
- New
The Monitors page has starter shops you can use on the free plan, like Total Cards, Zatu and TALA, and every paid one now says which plan it comes with.
Easier to watch any shop
- Improved
Paste a link to a shop that doesn't have its own monitor and we now set it up as Any other shop for you, the new name for Universal. Right there you can also watch the page from your own browser with the StockWatch extension, or ask us to add the shop.
- Improved
Paste a Shopify or WooCommerce shop into Any other shop and it now gets our Shopify or WooCommerce monitor instead, which is made for those shops.
- Improved
Paste a shop we support that isn't on your plan and we now tell you which plan monitors it, instead of saying we don't.
- New
Shops built on BigCommerce or Wix now have their own monitors on the paid plans.
- Improved
If a shop asks your browser to slow down, a monitor that runs there now tells you and lets you pick a slower speed in one tap. A new speed reaches the extension straight away.
Faster checks from your own browser
- Improved
Monitors that run in your own browser with the StockWatch extension can now check much faster, whatever your plan. Get the latest extension from Settings.
- Improved
If Chrome is closed, a monitor that runs there now tells you it isn't checking, instead of going quiet.
Straight answers when we can't watch a page
- Improved
Paste a page we can't find any products on and we'll tell you there and then, instead of setting up a monitor that never works. You'll see what you can do instead, like watching one product by its link or asking us to add the shop.
- New
On a computer with Chrome, you can watch a page like that from your own browser with the StockWatch extension. The Add box offers it when it can help.
Waterstones: hear when your local shop has it
- New
Watching one book at Waterstones? Pick the shops near you and we'll tell you when it's in stock there for Click & Collect, as well as online.
- Improved
A monitor watching one product now just asks about back in stock, price drops and selling out. New products can't happen to one item, so it's gone, and so is Only deals unless you'd already turned it on.
iPhone alerts open the shop in Safari
- Improved
On an iPhone, tapping an alert now opens the shop in Safari, with your saved passwords and cards.
- Fixed
Tapping an alert with StockWatch already open on your iPhone could leave a blank screen when you switched back. Now you land back in StockWatch.
Two things fixed on a phone
- Fixed
On a page like What's new, the menu used to open underneath that page's own heading bar. It now opens over the top, and the menu button stays put when you scroll.
- Fixed
Tap an alert while StockWatch is closed and the shop opens, same as before. Close the shop and you land back on StockWatch instead of a blank screen.
Monitors that kept stopping on strict shops
- Fixed
Some shops would turn a check away now and again, and the monitor took that as the shop being shut and stopped looking for a while. It now tries another way round and keeps going, so you get far fewer of those pauses and far fewer alerts saying a shop blocked us.
Ask for a shop we don't cover yet
- New
If we can't read the link you paste, you can now ask us to add that shop from the same box. We'll let you know if we add it.
Alert emails that say what happened
- Improved
Alert emails now say what actually happened. A Pokemon Center queue email tells you the queue is up and has a button to Pokemon Center, and an email about a page you watch shows what it said before and after.
- Fixed
A test alert no longer reads like a real restock. On Discord it said the item was back in stock, and on a Pokemon Center queue monitor the email called it a restock.
AllSaints, Superdry, Rimowa and similar shops
- New
You can now watch shops built on Salesforce Commerce Cloud, such as AllSaints, Superdry and Rimowa. Watch one product for a restock, the newest arrivals, or the whole shop for new products and price drops.
- Improved
You can edit a monitor even if its type isn't part of your plan any more. Only switching it to a type your plan doesn't include needs an upgrade.
Argos monitors
- New
You can now watch Argos for restocks, price drops and new products, across a search, a category or just one product. There is also a switch to watch only the products Argos sells in its app, which is where a lot of Pokemon stock drops first.
- Fixed
Watches on Argos products had stopped updating. They check stock and price again now.
A simpler way to choose your alerts
- Improved
The form for setting up or editing a monitor is shorter. You pick what to hear about from a short list (back in stock, new products, price drops and sold out), and settings most people never change are under More options.
- New
New monitors tell you about new products and restocks from the start, including full-price restocks.
- Improved
Watching every product in a Shopify or WooCommerce shop is now part of the paid plans. Monitors that already do it carry on as they are.
Universal monitor alerts link to the product
- Fixed
Alerts from Universal monitors could reach Discord, Telegram and your phone without a link to the product. They now link straight to it. In Discord and Telegram they show the price as well, and Discord shows the product picture.
Every email alert links to the product
- Fixed
Some restock emails arrived with no button to the product. Every email alert now links straight to the product, or to the shop when the alert is about the shop itself. Tapping the product picture opens it too.
- Improved
Email alerts now say they're from StockWatch even when your email app blocks images, and the buttons show up properly in Outlook.
- Improved
The test email in Settings now looks like a real alert and comes from the same address your alerts do. There is a short wait between test emails.
Monitors keep checking shops that are closed or down
- Fixed
If a shop put its password page up, or its website went down for a while, the monitor watching it could switch itself off after a few hours. Now it keeps checking, so you'll still hear the moment the shop is back.
- Improved
When a Shopify monitor's address stops leading to the shop, the error now says the shop may have moved, where before it showed a bare error code.
Clearer answers when your plan doesn't include something
- Fixed
Pasting a link to a shop we don't monitor yet offered an upgrade that wouldn't have helped. Now it tells you we don't monitor those shops yet.
- Improved
In the step-by-step setup, tapping a monitor type or check speed from a higher plan now shows you the plans, where before nothing happened. The classic form also tells you when a link you paste needs a higher plan.
- Fixed
Monitors that check a whole store no longer offer an upgrade for speeds no plan allows them.
Clearer keyword task and stock labels
- Fixed
Keyword tasks with no Discord webhook or email address no longer say "No destination" when you have push notifications on, because their matches reach your phone.
- Improved
Products listed before they're in stock now show "Listed but not yet in stock" on the dashboard card for every shop, so you don't have to open the card to see it.
Keyword task alerts on your phone, and quick cart fixes
- Fixed
A keyword task that matched a product sent its alert to the task's Discord channel or email address, but not to your phone. It now reaches your phone or computer as well, including on monitors set to alert through keyword tasks only.
- Fixed
Shopify alerts from monitors with Track Variants switched off had no quick cart buttons on the dashboard or in Discord. New alerts from those monitors now have them.
- Improved
The dashboard now tells you when a price drop is on something out of stock, instead of showing a card with no cart buttons and no reason why.
- Improved
Quick cart buttons now show in the dashboard's grid view too, not just the list.
Queue alerts come on top of your plan
- Improved
Pokemon Center queue alerts no longer count towards your plan's cloud monitors, so you can have one alongside the shops you already watch.
Pokemon Center queue alerts in one tap
- New
Pick UK or US and tap once to get told when the Pokemon Center queue goes up. Straight after, you choose where the alert goes: this phone, email, or the Chrome extension on your computer. You can also send yourself a test.
- Fixed
Queue alerts now reach your inbox if you've turned on email for restocks.
- Fixed
Tapping a locked shop on an empty Monitors page said you had reached your monitor limit. It now tells you which plan that shop needs.
Reddit alerts open the right post
- Fixed
Reddit alerts now open the post in the subreddit you're watching. If someone reposted a picture or shared a post from another subreddit, the alert opened the original instead, which could be hours older and made the alert look late.
Repeated restock and price alerts
- Fixed
Some monitors sent the same restock alert over and over this morning for products that had not come back into stock. They now hold off rather than alert when they cannot read a shop properly.
- Fixed
Prices on a few shops moved back and forth between two values, which alerted as a price drop each time. They now stay in the currency the shop actually sells in.
An updates page, and a What's new button
- New
This page, which lists the changes you'll notice in StockWatch and the day each one went live.
- New
A What's new button in the app, with a dot when there's an update you haven't seen yet.
Something not working? Have a look in the help centre.